[Fedora TeX Live] f17 texlive repository broken?

[Christophe Fergeau]

2012/7/18 José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt>:
> I suspect that it could be a transient behaviour due to the latest
> packages update.
>
> Probably you were unlucky and updated during a small window when the
> metadata was inconsistent, at least I remember other cases where the
> failure reason was this.

If the small window was several hours long, this might be it. The
repository metadata definitely has changed since yesterday, its last
modification date was July 2nd, and now it's July 17th.

Christophe